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From: Nick Gordon <nicholas.gordon@operamail.com>
Subject: How many of you have Ada programming careers?
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It's a little disheartening to hear that so many of you worked in the past as Ada programmers, and only a few of you currently do.
I suppose I had gotten it in my head that Ada was a bit like COBOL, in that it was a niche language with high demand that would practically require programmers at any given time, which excited me on the grounds of making some good money and using a language that, now that I'm cresting the hill of understanding the strong typing, I'm quite enjoying.

I still plan on learning how to Ada, mostly because I'm interested in system programming, embedded systems, and to a lesser extent operating system development.

I have thoroughly enjoyed hearing from all of you, though. I was under the impression that you all were roughly my age (21), but I am obviously thoroughly wrong. I knew it when I saw all the ALGOL and FORTRAN starts!